I was watching one of my daughters shows today and they do this little thing where a kid goes to the zoo ro dog trainer or cooking ro whatever. Anyways I actually learnt something from it!! When needing to cut the lard/butter into the flour use a cheese grater!! Man how much easier my life would have been had I thought of that earlier. I have never had a pastry cutter and always just used two butter knives!!! Now I have a hankering to build a pie...perhaps apple I think!!!

IMO, the thing about using the food processor is that you don't get a real good feel for the amount of water that the dough needs, which is always somewhat different depending on humidity and the flour you are using.

I just have a better feel for that when I am using my hands.

But my food processor crust has come out pretty well most times, I do admit.

Every time I try to make a pie crust by hand it comes out aweful! My mother thought it apostasy to use the food processor for pie crust but I get a lot of compliments on my pie crusts when I make them in the food processor... I'm sold!